The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-03

! FLORIDA.
Work on the brickyard at Green Cove
! Springs is progressing finely.
The Strathmore Hotel at Amelia beach,
near Fernandina, closed Friday.
! At Green Cove Springs oranges are color
! ing up. Japan plum trees are IN full bloom
George H. Shelter. Of Gadsden county,
has sold his crop Of tobacco for SOC. per
| pound
Work at Green Cove Springs on the
| building for the car shops is rapidly pro-
| crossing.
Reports from Concord say that the crops
in that section are very fine and the farmers
are happy.
At Green Cove Springs Japan persimmons
are ripening. This crop is now IN its prime
for shipping.
More tobacco will be planted in Gadsden
county next year than at any time within
the past twenty years.
Last week A L. Wilson. of Gadsden
county. gathered 122 bushels of corn from
two and half acres of land
Four wagons loaded with live hogs passed
through Quincy Friday. They were taken
there from Liberty county to be fattened on
shares
DeSoto county will hold two elections on
Nov. 3, one 10 determine the location OF the
county seat, and the other on the Prohibi-
ton question
The Putnam pharmacy, at Palatka, was
robbed of railroad tickets to st. Louis and
cigars, by burglars, Friday night. The
tickets represented $40
Kretschmar & Cory, of Quincy, have
contracted with J. NJ. Wilson for 100 to-
bacco boxes in which to pack the tobacco
they are purchasing. 1t is likely they will
need at least 500 boxes
Once more the champion silver-mounted
bat is in the hands of the Invincibles who
defeated the Oak Halls at Gainesville Fri
day by a score of % to 9. The bat viii re-
main in Fernandina until next season.
Ike Haas, of Green Cove Springs, in
couple of rounds recently, killed on one
hunt fifteen out of seventeen, and at an
other fourteen out of fifteen birds-or
missed three times out Of thirty two shots.
d. ALT Cook of jacksonville, has some
curioSities at his store in the shape of old
Confederate pOstags stamps and money,
and a copy of the first issue of Hdrper'S
Weekly ever printed, which bears the date
of Jan 8, 1857.
A load of watermelons were brought into
market on Tuesday by John Rivers.
Although the melons were quite small, nu-
merous old-time friends were on hand,
ready to do homage to their favorite, and
soon the last of the crop had vanished.
A meeting of the citizens of Clay county
was held at the court house at Green Cove
Springs Saturday, and was organized by
electing p. c. Fisher. Esq. acting as chair
man and L. w. Zim, of the Spring, score
tary. The object of the meeting was to
take steps to have Clay county properly
represented at the b-Tropical Exposition
J. r. Willis, of Quincy, recently offered
IL,
berry Grove, for the largest number of
Bible verses to be quoted from memory
Miss Mary Dickson was the winner by re-
citing GA verses, Miss Orian Thompson fol-
lowed with AS verses, and Miss Emma
Gregory recited 239. The exercises were
very interesting, and the children were
highly elated.
At Tampa the returns are in from all but
three precincts in HillsborOugh county
The "dry" men claim Keysville by 80, and
Moody School-house by 20 majorities. Con
county is 6, with Little Manatee to hear
from. This precinct very seldom votes,
aud if it does it will certainly go wet by
6 or S. This is conceded. The result will
not be positively known until to-day.
At Green Cove Springs Circuit Court ad-
journed Friday for the term, after full four
days session, during which a number of
cases were disposed of. Among the crimi-
nal cases was one against Mack Williams
for an assault with intent to murder, conf
mitted upon the person of Jesse Jones, both
evidence and argument the case was
submitted to the jury under the charge
from the judge, and a verdict of not
guilty was rendered. The case of the State
of Florida, against f. A. Houghton and
Others, for obstructing a railway, was also
tried with a similar result The grand jury
i'll their general presentments, after max
ing a thorough examination of large mum
Der of witnesses, also had the steamer Twi-
light broughr to the wharf, and large
committee from their body examined the
boat and determined that the late Grant
Conner, engineer on said boat, was muir
dered, and requested that the County Com
missioners offer reward of $500 for proof
to convict the murderer.